M&M Data Surveyhttp://www.mmdatasurvey.com
Collecting Data to Play WithThu, 04 Oct 2012 23:20:39 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.917700986Getting Started with Froot Loopshttp://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2012/10/04/getting-started-with-froot-loops/
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:19:45 +0000http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/?p=153Ready to help us gather data? What to count Froot Loops with us? Awesome! The process is really quite easy and we will take you through it step by step. Here’s what you need to do: Get a box of Froot Loops. It doesn’t matter what size the box is but only to count Froot […]]]>

Ready to help us gather data? What to count Froot Loops with us?

Awesome!

The process is really quite easy and we will take you through it step by step.

Here’s what you need to do:

Get a box of Froot Loops. It doesn’t matter what size the box is but only to count Froot Loops that come in the standard colors. That means no marshmallow Froot Loops.

Once you have your box of Froot Loops all you need now is to count up the color of Froot Loop.

Teachers, you might consider a box among

You might want to head over the Downloads page to get some worksheets to help you or your students through the counting process (designed for third grade) or a letter to send home to parents to let them know what you are doing in math class. If you develop any other resources what would go well with our site, let us know about them!

After you have gone through the counting process it will be time to record that data to our spreadsheet by clicking the Take the Survey button below.

]]>153Getting Started with M&M’shttp://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2012/10/04/getting-started-with-mms/
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:58:00 +0000http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/?p=148Ready to help us gather data? What to count M&M’s with us? Awesome! The process is really quite easy and we will take you through it step by step. Here’s what you need to do: Get a bag of M&M’s. It doesn’t matter what size the bag is but only want to count M&M’s that […]]]>

Ready to help us gather data? What to count M&M’s with us?

Awesome!

The process is really quite easy and we will take you through it step by step.

Here’s what you need to do:

Get a bag of M&M’s. It doesn’t matter what size the bag is but only want to count M&M’s that come in the standard colors. That means no Christmas, Coconut, or Fall M&M’s because they don’t use the standard colors. Sadly, that puts the new pretzel M&M’s out as well because those bags lack yellow.

Once you have your bag of M&M’s all you need now is to count up the color of M&M’s.

You might want to head over the Downloads page to get some worksheets to help you or your students through the counting process (designed for third grade) or a letter to send home to parents to let them know what you are doing in math class. If you develop any other resources what would go well with our site, let us know about them!

After you have gone through the counting process it will be time to record that data to our spreadsheet by clicking the Take the Survey button below.

]]>148Data Survey Adds More Featureshttp://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2010/11/15/data-survey-adds-more-features/
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:24:30 +0000http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/?p=61Welcome back to M&M Data Survey. This is our fifth year of collecting data about M&M’s so we have decided to add some new features this year! First, we are also going to start counting Fruit Loops as well as M&M’s. Many school districts have health policies that would not allow teachers to use M&M’s […]]]>

Welcome back to M&M Data Survey. This is our fifth year of collecting data about M&M’s so we have decided to add some new features this year!

First, we are also going to start counting Fruit Loops as well as M&M’s. Many school districts have health policies that would not allow teachers to use M&M’s with their students which made participation in the Data Survey a little difficult. Despite, being sugary and delicious, Fruit Loops are more healthy than M&M’s so hopefully everyone will be able to participate in the Data Survey.

We will be tracking the data using Google Docs which will make the process of releasing new data much easier than the old system.

Since we are starting with a new system for gathering data, we will be starting over completely. Old data will still be available for you to download if you are wanting to work with a larger data set but we hope that you will consider growing our data sample with the new data surveys.

]]>61M&M Data Survey is Back!http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2008/11/18/mm-data-survey-is-back-2/
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:14:26 +0000http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2008/11/18/mm-data-survey-is-back-2/The M&M Data Survey is back for another year of M&M counting (and eating) fun! This is the third year that Mr. Wright’s Class has done the M&M Data Survey. We have already brought in our M&Ms and counted them. Now it is your turn to grab a bag and get to counting.

To start of this year’s data collection, you can go to the Downloads Page and get our first Excel Spreadsheet for the year.

]]>57Data as of 12-14-07http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2007/12/14/data-as-of-12-14-07-2/
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:38:29 +0000http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2007/12/14/data-as-of-12-14-07/You can download the latest data, dated 12-14-07 here or on the Downloads page. See a bar graph of the latest data after the jump.

]]>54M&M Data Survey is Backhttp://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2007/11/23/mm-data-survey-is-back/
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:41:57 +0000http://www.mmdatasurvey.com/2007/11/23/mm-data-survey-is-back/M&M Data Survey is back for another year of collecting data. Mr. Wright’s Class collected data (and then ate the data) the week of Thanksgiving. We have added our data and Mr. Wright has weeded through all the old data to discard data that didn’t quite look accurate.

Flip on over to the Downloads page to download our newest data and to check out our new M&M leader!

Our color blends were selected by conducting consumer preference tests, which indicate the assortment of colors that pleased the greatest number of people and created the most attractive overall effect.

Each large production batch is blended to those ratios and mixed thoroughly. However, since the individual packages are filled by weight on high-speed equipment, and not by count, it is possible to have an unusual color distribution.